GRE Word List
AVOCATION
a subordinate occupation pursued in addition to one's vocation especially for enjoyment : hobby
The meaning of the word avocation is a subordinate occupation pursued in addition to one's vocation especially for enjoyment : hobby.
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| complicity | association or participation in or as if in a wrongful act |
| apocalyptic | of, relating to, or resembling an apocalypse |
| discount | a reduction made from the gross (see gross |
| whit | the smallest part or particle imaginable : bit |
| subterfuge | deception by artifice or stratagem in order to conceal, escape, or evade |
| impugn | to assail by words or arguments : oppose or attack as false or lacking integrity |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| remission | the act or process of remitting |
| turbid | thick or opaque with or as if with roiled sediment |
| slake | subside |